Sentence examples for fairy were about from inspiring English sources

The so-called "finger variation," which the fairy Violente performs at Princess Aurora's christening, in order to bestow "temperament" (high spirits) on her, involves a lot of pointing and is usually done very vigorously, as if that fairy were about to poke somebody's eyes out.

(That's largely what the "confidence fairy" was about!) A fair bit in the recent NYBooks piece, many times on this blog.

Freddie and the Fairy is about lip-reading – the fairy gets all the wishes wrong because she can't hear properly.

But the trend actually dates back more than 400 years, and one of the earliest books intended for amateur colouring – a series of maps adorned with delicately drawn images of nymphs, water sprites and fairies – is about to be republished, centuries after it was first printed.

That's what the fairy tale is about".

The fashion world is much better suited to that particular allegory because that's what the fairy tale is about: fashion.

Jobriath dubbed himself "The True Fairy of Rock & Roll," and this was about as apt a description as one could make about him.

Steve Kloves wrote the screenplay and directed Jeff and Beau Bridges as the title characters - Saturday at 8 p.m. on Channel 9. Yes, the 80's were so success-oriente that even our fairy tales were about offices with a view.

Written and directed by Anthony Minghella with the puppeteer Jim Henson, each episode opened with a fireside scene in which a storyteller, played by John Hurt, dramatized the fairy tale we were about to watch, presenting it as part of a living tradition come down through the centuries.

The fairy tale is about magic.

The appeal wasn't just the gross-out factor, of course; it's that fairy tales are about transformation.